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Workers on the line at Ford Motor Co.'s Kentucky Truck Plant in eastern Jefferson County, March 19, 2019
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About 550 workers will move from Louisville Assembly Plant, where the Escape SUV is made, to Kentucky Truck Plant to help boost production of the Expedition and Lincoln Navigator.
Ford Motor Co. plans a brief work stoppage for a few days at its U.S. plants, including the two in Louisville, in the "near future" to allow for "deep cleaning" as a precaution against the novel coronavirus, the president of local Louisville autoworkers union told WDRB.
The global shortage of computer chips that has hampered automakers since January has finally reached Ford's Kentucky Truck Plant in eastern Jefferson County.
